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English
Etymology
From anti- + religious.
Adjective
antireligious (comparative more antireligious, superlative most antireligious)
- Opposed to religion.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:antireligious
- Antonym: antisecular
2009 February 28, Peter Steinfels, “Scandanavian Nonbelievers, Which Is Not to Say Atheists”, in New York Times:The many nonbelievers he interviewed were anything but antireligious, for example.
Usage notes
- anti-religious is slightly more common overall than antireligious; it is at least two times as common in the British corpus. Merriam-Webster, OED and Cambridge have anti-religious. Collins and Cambridge have antireligious.
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References
- ^ anti-religious, antireligious at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- ^ “anti-religious”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 “anti-religious”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- ^ “antireligious”, in Collins English Dictionary.
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